Hundreds of government teachers today staged a dharna outside the collectorate in support of their long-pending demands, on Saturday.
More than 500 teachers under the banner of Akhil Jharkhand Primary Teachers Association(AJPTA), assembled in front of collectorate for pressing the government to implement the 17-point demand charter.
Addressing the dharna president of the AJPTA Sunil Kumar Dubey said that today efforts are being made to divide teachers into different sections and break their unity. In order to provide good education by imparting education to midday meal, toilets cleaning, dress distribution, Prabhat Pheri work and counting children etc. Government is cheating on the name of giving quality education to children.
General Secretary Dilip Kumar Srivastav said that education have become a profits business, the government education system is being destroyed to flourish this business.
Besides this Alok Kumar, Shambhu Sharan, Ashok Sao, Kuar Singh, Ajay Minj, Pankaj Roy and others also addressed the dharna. In the name of Chief Minister, a 17-point demand charter also handed over to the deputed Officer.